Most games don’t contain what I’m looking for and don’t work for me. The ones that do work for me are very fun and engaging and occasionally actually awe inspiring. So I try to only play those. I’m almost never lacking for something great to play for very long.
Video games are kinda boring
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#82Modern games are jam packed with content to the point of FOMO. There's so much baggage for just sitting down and having fun for an hour.
Look at Elden Ring - who cares about "weapon arts" and sneaking? Upgrades and infusions.... what? In Demon's Souls remake you get a shield and a sword, and you have to be creative and make your own fun. And I like that, making your own adventure - being a player instead of a spectator.
It's a game after all.
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#83I really do not like these type of articles. I did X, Y, Z and therefore it is justified enough for me to make overreaching claims. Video games are still very fun and very profitable for the rest of us. Wish I could mute HN accounts like I mute ppl on twitter, not enough to signal an explicit exclusion but enough for me to ignore whatever they have to say in the future because of misalignment of values in the present…
Yeah i noticed this blog advertised already second time this week, first time it was stupid comparison of photo in PNG format (!) with amazing small WebP (I mean anything would be amazing next to photo in PNG), now for change he is expert on games, dunno who upvotes this...
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#84There's a video game that never bores me called Linux. You should try it out. In Linux, you can download software, and learn to use it to solve a wide array of problems. You can edit files, one of life's simple pleasures. If you find yourself repeating a task, you can find ways to automate it. Doing an old task faster means you levelled up, which gets the blood flowing. You can explore vast worlds (ecosystems/code ba…
It is. Especially if you go down the source builds and compiler optimisation rabbit hole. Before you know it, you're reading Phoronix every day for benchmarks. Next thing you're fixing your gentoo USE flags at 4:17 in the morning.
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#85There's a video game that never bores me called Linux. You should try it out. In Linux, you can download software, and learn to use it to solve a wide array of problems. You can edit files, one of life's simple pleasures. If you find yourself repeating a task, you can find ways to automate it. Doing an old task faster means you levelled up, which gets the blood flowing. You can explore vast worlds (ecosystems/code ba…
It is. Especially if you go down the source builds and compiler optimisation rabbit hole. Before you know it, you're reading Phoronix every day for benchmarks. Next thing you're fixing your gentoo USE flags at 4:17 in the morning.
its just like an MMO.
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#86I agree about lack of a "higher goal" in most games, same old basic recipes. I always think of a MMO-type game where you have really well made AI that can attack cities, little villages and things like that. This should happen in a none-scripted way, and that players then have to help each other out and combat these invasion type of things. This would give more purpose than "get to the next level" sort of scenario.
Games before used to "feel" mysterious. I am looking at you Ultima, Everquest and perhaps Anarchy online. Initially there was no guides or answers, you had to really explore and this made the world(s) feel mysterious. Anything could happen. Nowadays the entire game is datamined, guides are written and everything is known even before released, very sad. Perhaps "streaming" games could solve this issue, where no assets are present on no client, just a real time stream ala stadia. But, I suppose latency, graphics quality, etc makes this hard.
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#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
As someone who played Rust and had to remove it from my steam account because of how much I loved it - can you elaborate?
Oh boy, here we go. First, I meant that on multiple levels. Tarkov has some interesting dynamics with competition and dual classes of players, and competing incentives to both team up and betray others based on in-game tasks and rep systems. The high emphasis on looting (my understanding is it's like Rust but more) and penalties for dying (you lose what you brought in), make for tense interactions. They just added in…
Tarkov has the most comically incompetent development team of any game I've seen. They are the polar opposite of the Rust team (big monthly updates, minimal/zero regressions) despite both games using the same engine. The big Tarkov update yesterday just broke a core gameplay component (player scavs killing a _PMC_ now aggros all AI scavs) and there are a ton of graphical regressions in addition to a fun new race condition that results in glitched backpack windows staying visible (even on the main menu, etc.).
My killer game idea right now is EFT built by a competent developer with more interesting quests than "kill N bad guys" and "collect N items".
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#88Congrats, you grew up.
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#89Something I've always wanted to work on but now that I've grown older after ~47 years of playing computer games I'll need to pass on to the next generation: A Natural User Interface To Games.
Right now, there's a translation layer in the way -- your controller, keyboard/mice, wands all get translated into in-game actions, and in different ways from game to game. You always have to spend time learning this translation. Ugh.
Come on, folks. Build me a haptic suit or something similar that I can use to control my avatar. It'd track my fingers, obviously. Of course, a good high-resolution VR faceplate with no cables dangling is a requirement.
Every game would have an obvious interface, and you'd get some exercise also!
Build this for me before my time passes!
(It's probably dangerous for me to say this, but I could fund this endeavor.)
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#90478h your max for a single game doesn't make you a "gamer"
it makes you a casual gamer, specially since you listed online multiplayer games, that could explain the title
This is what you can call a proper gamer:
https://i.imgur.com/00hPR58.png
Also a proper title would have been:
"I'm no longer finding fun/excitement playing video games"